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Re: A6 record status

David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> Fri, 12 August 2011 17:16 UTC

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Mark,

On Aug 11, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> The root servers are getting 100's of A6 q/s (~20:1 AAAA:A6
> <http://k.root-servers.org/statistics/GLOBAL/daily/>).  

Yeah, so?  The vast majority of the queries hitting the root servers are useless crap.  100's of A6 qps is in the noise.

> There is
> still a very large base of A6 using software out there regardless
> of whether they are getting NODATA responses or not.

And keeping an RFC as experimental is going to change that how?

> I don't know what percentage of responses are NODATA and what have
> actual A6 records.  I do think we need to know answers to these sorts
> of questions.

Why?  What possible difference will it make?

Regards,
-drc

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